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| File:Skyscrapers MC.jpgDan Spivey (Left) & "Mean" Mark Callous(right) with manager Teddy Long | |
| Tag team | |
| Members | ”Psycho” Sid Vicious ”Dangerous” Dan Spivey ”Mean” Mark Callous ”Masked Sky Scraper” |
| Billed heights | 6 ft 9 in (206 cm) – Sid Vicious 6 ft 8 in (203 cm) – Dan Spivey 6 ft 8 in (203 cm) – Mark Callous 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) – “Masked Skyscraper” |
| Debut | 1989 |
| Disbanded | 1990 |
The Skyscrapers were a professional wrestling tag team in World Championship Wrestling in 1989 and 1990 in two distinct forms with members ”Psycho” Sid Vicious, ”Dangerous” Dan Spivey, "Mean" Mark Callous with The Masked Skyscraper making a one night appearance.
Career
In early 1989 Teddy Long was a referee for the National Wrestling Alliance but due to a series of questionable calls, including one that cost the Road Warriors their world tag-team titles Teddy Long was fired and took up managing instead. Long paired Dan Spivey with Sid Vicious, two people who had recently signed with the federation and gave them the name “The Skyscrapers” – mainly because both men were so tall.
The Skyscrapers’ first taste of success came at the 1989 Great American Bash PPV where they first co-won a Two-Ring King of the Hill Battle Royal with Sid being the survivor in one ring and Dan surviving in the other. The rules called for the two to fight each other but manager Teddy Long convinced them to shake hands and share the prize money. Later in the night the Skyscrapers defeated The Dynamic Dudes due to their overwhelming size and power.
The Skyscrapers quickly became involved in a feud with the Road Warriors, sparked by Teddy Long’s actions while still a referee. The two teams were very evenly matched in power and intensity creating a series of matches that did not favor one team over the other. Spivey and Vicious were disqualified against the Road Warriors at Halloween Havoc 1989 but did not look like losers on the night. Shortly after Halloween Havoc the Skyscrapers faced the Steiner Brothers at Clash of the Champions IX in a hard hitting match. A match that was so hard hitting in fact that Sid Vicious suffered a punctured lung due to a broke rib.
With Vicious out of action Teddy Long brought in another tall newcomer in the same mold as Sid Vicious and Dan Spivey and dubbed him ”Mean” Mark Callous. The New Skyscrapers immediately picked up the feud with the Road Warriors and kept on having inconclusive matches with them. At Clash of the Champions X the Skyscrapers finally got the better of the Road Warriors, not in the match but afterwards when they beat the Road Warriors down. At this point in time no one had ever been able to physically dominate the Road Warriors, something that pointed that big things had been planned for the Skyscrapers.
But big things never happened, in the days before the scheduled Chicago Street Fight at Wrestle War 1990 Dan Spivey suddenly left WCW leaving the bookers to scramble for a replacement. The solution was a masked man called “The Masked Skyscraper” (In reality he was half of AWA World Tag Team Champions the Destruction Crew: Mike Enos). The Road Warriors made short work of Callous and the Masked Skyscraper ending the feud and ending the Skyscrapers run of domination.
Near the end of 1990 Dan Spivey returned to WCW and for a short while he and Sid Vicious (Who was now a member of the Four Horsemen reunited the Skyscrapers beating the team of Big Cat and the Motor City Madman at Starrcade 1990. Shortly after the PPV the Skyscrapers quietly disbanded for good.
In Wrestling
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